tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63214046413480485082024-03-13T11:37:07.762-04:00The Battle Of AtlantaMusings on history,most especially on the War Between The States,southern culture and anything else that may tickle my fancy or riles my blood.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-3453746233473402022013-11-06T10:43:00.000-05:002013-11-06T10:43:21.517-05:00Not Wanting To Be The DisestablishmentFrom <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/363238/and-now-airing-grievances-jonah-goldberg" target="_blank">Jonah Goldberg:</a> <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<em><span style="color: blue;">If the folks running the party want the tea partiers to support their preferred candidates — when they’re the nominee, at least — it should work the other way around as well. It now appears that Cuccinelli, a flawed candidate running against an even more flawed human being, could have pulled this thing out if he’d had more help at the end.</span></em></blockquote>
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What Jonah and others fail to realize is,that 'the GOP establishment' would very well rather have McAuliffe or any other liberal Democrat elected to office than a real conservative,'Tea Partier',or libertarian Republican. 'The establishment' knows full well the day that the 'Tea Party',or any other freedom loving candidates gain a majority in the GOP,they will go from being the establishment to being the disestablishment.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-40393610388795363492013-10-06T10:54:00.001-04:002013-10-06T10:55:58.649-04:00Whose Land Is It ?I haven't blogged in awhile but I thought I would share my thoughts on this.<br />
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From <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/now-govt-trying-to-block-people-from-looking-at-mt-rushmore-seriously/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29" target="_blank">Legal Insurrection:</a><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">As bad as the </span></em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/battle-of-the-barrycades-vets-storm-vietnam-memorial-u-s-park-police-called-in/"><em><span style="color: blue;">Battle of the Barrycades</span></em></a><em><span style="color: blue;"> is in Washington, D.C., forcing WWII Vets to have to push their way past barricades at the </span></em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/wwii-vets-storm-barry-cades/"><em><span style="color: blue;">WWII Memorial</span></em></a><em><span style="color: blue;">, </span></em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/obama-barricades-lincoln-memorial-unlike-during-1995-shutdown/"><em><span style="color: blue;">Lincoln Memorial</span></em></a><em><span style="color: blue;">, </span></em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/battle-of-the-barrycades-vets-storm-vietnam-memorial-u-s-park-police-called-in/"><em><span style="color: blue;">Vietnam Memorial</span></em></a><em><span style="color: blue;">, and </span></em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/wwii-vet-removing-iwo-jima-memorial-barricades-blew-my-mind-it-was-great/"><em><span style="color: blue;">Iwo Jima Memorial</span></em></a><em><span style="color: blue;">, what the feds did at Mount Rushmore has to be the most petty and insane of them all.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">The feds didn’t just shut the access roads — even though the state offered to pay to keep them open — it erected cones along a viewing road in the distance to prevent people from pulling over to view the presidential monument.</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Here is a thought for the people of South Dakota and the other 49 sovereign states in the union,maybe its time to evict the federal government and take back your property.</span>Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-34436737829242364652013-05-09T16:01:00.001-04:002013-05-09T16:05:05.036-04:00'If You Are Ever In A Fair Fight,Your Tactics Suck'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-86462622338370628812013-05-08T18:48:00.000-04:002013-05-08T18:48:47.121-04:00'Gun Use By Citizens Infographic'From <a href="http://therepublicanmother.blogspot.com/2013/05/gun-use-by-citizens-infographic.html" target="_blank">The republican Mother</a>: <br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-52509515799929355232013-05-08T14:02:00.002-04:002013-05-08T14:02:54.345-04:00The Brutal And Bloody Reality Of Roe v. Wade<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/347657/abortion%E2%80%99s-underside" target="_blank">Jillian Kay Melchior</a>: <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Sycloria Williams was recovering from a botched abortion at her Pompano, Fla., home on July 21, 2006, when two homicide detectives knocked on her door. They asked if she knew why they were there. “Yes,” Williams said immediately. “Because the baby was born alive.”1</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">It took investigators one week and three separate searches to find the corpse of Williams’s infant, which was hidden away in the abortion clinic in Hialeah, Fla.2 It was a tiny black girl, only 25.5 centimeters from head to toe, born prematurely on July 20. Her body was badly decomposed, discolored and infested with maggots, but the autopsy report and an expert physician’s review both suggested she had drawn breath on her own before she died.3</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">The body had been hidden, according to a tip received by the police, on the roof4 or perhaps in the dropped ceiling of the abortion clinic,5 then later in a biohazard bag within a medical-waste box in the malodorous recovery room.6 Florida’s Department of Health later alleged that Williams’s doctor had “falsified [her] medical records in an apparent effort to conceal his errors and the true events of July 20, 2006.”7</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">Those “true events” — the alleged murder of an infant who was not supposed to be born alive — turned out to be harder to sort out than anyone expected, and the conclusion also proved hazy. In the end, no one was successfully held responsible for the infant’s death in either criminal or civil court, despite efforts at prosecution.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">The sensational case of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell, which finally gained coverage from the reluctant media, has revealed the ugly operations of an abortion clinic where live-born babies were allegedly murdered, their spines snipped with scissors, and where women received abortions in horrifyingly unsanitary conditions. Many sustained internal injuries; one woman even died, drugged up on cheap Demerol.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">The Gosnell case prompts the question of how common similar practices are. A National Review investigation revealed the troubling history of three Florida abortion clinics, located in Miami, Hialeah, and Miramar, that have had several run-ins with the law. After a 2004 tip proved accurate, two owners and two staff members were successfully prosecuted for unlicensed medical practice; and, although there was no conviction, it appears that Sycloria Williams’s baby was born alive and murdered at the Hialeah clinic in 2006. Furthermore, some of the clinics’ doctors have records best described as routine medical violence against women. Yet despite their fraught past, the three clinics remain fully operational today. And they are a critical but often-neglected part of the picture of abortion in America.</span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">This is the conversation the left doesn't want to have concerning abortion.They don't want to talk about the severed limbs of the unborn.They don't want to talk about the unborn child having a heart beat.They don't want to talk about the child struggling to breath,as it just having been ripped from its mother's womb in a abortion.</span>No,they would rather discuss the whole matter in the nice and sterile abstract of choice and the right to privacy.Never will they discuss abortion in its bloody reality.<br />
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<br />Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-82753625982850075032013-05-07T14:19:00.000-04:002013-05-07T14:19:08.691-04:00'Justice Department To Monitor South Carolina Congressional Election'From <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/us-usa-politics-southcarolina-monitors-idUSBRE9450RO20130506" target="_blank">Reuters</a>: <span style="color: blue;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>The Justice Department said in a statement it was monitoring the election under provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The law bars election discrimination on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>The department did not give a reason for the monitoring. Tuesday's vote will take place under South Carolina's new law mandating photo identification for voters, and Justice Department monitors observed primary elections.</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">I wish to God,the State of South Carolina would stand up to the DOJ and say,"we are not a 3rd world dictatorship.We are a sovereign state and Hell No,you can not come and monitor our elections for no particular reason!!!!!!"</span><br /><br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-80418294202999252742013-05-04T15:27:00.001-04:002013-05-04T15:27:08.996-04:00Col. Allen West On Real Heroism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-23022794916751620262013-04-30T14:45:00.000-04:002013-04-30T14:45:42.592-04:00'Cultural Terrorism' In Atlanta,Georgia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From <a href="http://www.11alive.com/news/article/290674/3/Petition-wants-Stone-Mt-Confederate-carving-removed" target="_blank">11 Alive</a>: <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: blue;">......... an Atlanta man wants the Confederate Memorial relief on Stone Mountain removed. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: blue;">"It's almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture," McCartney Forde told 11Alive News on Monday. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: blue;">That's how Forde feels about the 2 football field-wide carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson that towers 400 feet above the mountain's base. </span></em></div>
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When the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas it was described as <a href="http://archive.archaeology.org/0105/newsbriefs/afghan.html" target="_blank">'cultural terrorism'</a>.This is nothing more than the same thing than what the Taliban did.Its an attempt to purge,mine and others,Southern Heritage from off the face of the Earth,all to conform to the Political Correct narrative that the progressives have foisted upon us.The real haters are on the left.
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-14302097525712371802013-04-30T10:27:00.001-04:002013-04-30T10:27:25.948-04:00Terrorism And Food StampsFrom the <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tsarnaev_family_received_100g_in_benefits" target="_blank">Boston Herald</a>: <span style="color: blue;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee today.</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">Everyone has wondered whether their was another accomplice in the Boston Marathon bombings,there was,the Welfare State.The state of Massachusetts and the Federal government gave aid and comfort to our enemy,</span><span style="color: black;">while they plotted to attack our country.</span><br /><br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-33078824169903496712013-04-27T12:16:00.000-04:002013-04-27T12:16:33.949-04:00Global Warming Is A Good Thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/27/guy-who-discovered-global-warming-thought-rising-temperatures-were-good/" target="_blank">The Daily Caller</a>: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Steam engineer and amateur scientist Guy Stewart Callendar, who first theorized a link between global warming and carbon dioxide emissions 75 years ago, believed that global warming would be a boon to mankind.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em>“Callendar, who died in 1964, aged 66, thought global warming was good because it would stop what he called ‘deadly glaciers’ returning and could boost the growth of crops at high latitude,” The BBC reports.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em>Callendar’s claim may not be that far off. For example, Reuters reported that Greenland residents are able to grow crops they previously couldn’t because of longer, warmer summers. Thawing ice sheets have also spurred increased mining and oil exploration.</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black;">I've been saying for awhile now,that global warming,if true,would be a very good thing for humanity.Ice ages are the real danger to mankind!</span></span>Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-70951851051408546452013-04-16T18:40:00.000-04:002013-04-16T18:40:33.246-04:00Another Terrorist Attack And The Answer Is A Loss Of More FreedomFrom <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/16/gop_rep_peter_king_on_boston_bombing_i_do_think_we_need_more_cameras_.html" target="_blank">Real Clear Politics</a>: <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: Congressman, briefly, do you think that this will lead to more cameras? I know it's controversial, there are privacy issues. Boston does have a lot of cameras. European cities, led by London, have the most. Are Americans going to have to get used to more surveillance on a daily basis? </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">REP. PETER KING (R-NY): I think we do because I think privacy involves being in a private location. Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing. A camera just makes it more sophisticated, but it's no different from your neighbor looking out the window at you or a police officer looking at you walking down the street. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">So, I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that. So yes, I do favor more cameras. They're a great law enforcement method and device. And again, it keeps us ahead of the terrorists, who are constantly trying to kill us.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue;">I hope also that members of Congress, both parties, including my own, will realize that the war against terror is not over. And it's foolhardy to be making cuts in Homeland Security, especially to cities, whose police departments need this to train and to be ready to take on terrorism. (Andrea Mitchell Reports, April 16, 2013)</span></em></blockquote>
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When Sandyhook happened they couldn't wait to come after our guns.Now,with the terrorist attack in Boston,they want to keep us under constant surveillance.<br /><br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-41741783876886081152013-04-14T11:44:00.000-04:002013-04-15T00:21:15.664-04:00Tiger Woods Dishonors The Legacy Of Bobby Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tiger Woods was charged a 2 stroke penalty at The Masters on Saturday after signing an incorrect scorecard.Many golfers,both past and present,said that Tiger Woods should have withdrawn from the tournament.3 time Masters champion <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/mastersaugusta/9992387/The-Masters-2013-under-fire-Tiger-Woods-facing-player-backlash-for-not-withdrawing-after-wrongly-signing-his-scorecard.html" target="_blank">Nick Faldo</a> saying this: <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">“He should really sit down and consider this - it will taint his legacy and his life,” he said. “I would be saying: ‘I have broken the rules of golf’. Sometimes the black and whiteness is harsh, but Tiger would get massive brownie points if he stood up and said: ‘Fair enough, I’ve broken the rules’ and walked.” </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Explaining why he believed Woods was wrong to play on, Faldo said: “Tiger gained an advantage intentionally. He said so himself. He was judge and jury. If he goes on to win what kind of asterix would he have next to this Masters? Arnold Palmer said that in our game the integrity of golf must be taken forward. We are custodians of the game. We must carry it forward.” </span></em></blockquote>
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Golf is a game rooted in personal integrity,honor and fair play.It is the only sport where an individual calls a foul upon themselves for infringing upon the rules.<br />
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The Masters is a tournament that was created by golfing legend Bobby Jones.It is dedicated to preserving the traditions of the game of golf and perserving the legacy of it founder,Bobby Jones.<br />
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Bobby Jones is revered for his personal integrity.He never played the game of golf professionally but always maintained his amateur status.His profession was that of a lawyer.<br />
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If there was anyplace Tiger Woods should have upheld the traditions of the game of golf and honored the memory of Bobby Jones,it would be at The Masters.Never the less,Tiger Woods showed he cared nothing for the sport that has made him a multi-millionaire,only caring about his own personal glory.<br />
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BTW,you think he would have been allowed to stay in the tournament if he wasn't Tiger Woods?Not a chance.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-53165412599328014092013-04-11T11:49:00.000-04:002013-04-11T11:51:01.280-04:00'IRS:We Can Read Emails Without Warrant'From <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/292989-irs-claims-it-can-read-emails-without-a-warrant" target="_blank">The Hill</a>: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>In a 2009 handbook, the IRS said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." A 2010 presentation by the IRS Office of General Counsel reiterated the policy.</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black;">So,according to our Federal government the 4th Amendment protects a woman's right to an abortion but does not protect our private emails from being read by the IRS.Absurd to say the least.</span></span>
Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-58747675519709042732013-04-08T13:03:00.000-04:002013-04-08T13:03:14.720-04:00The Iron Lady Has Passed Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1075292/margaret-thatcher-dies-after-stroke" target="_blank">Margaret Thatcher</a>,Great Britain's Prime Minister from 1979 - 1990,has died at age 87.<br />
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She was a staunch ally in the Cold War against communism.She stood unapologetic in her stand against big and instursive government.She was in fact the greatest English Prime Minister since Winston Churchill.She will be greatly missed by all who love liberty.<br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-12571963944438785752013-04-06T23:21:00.000-04:002013-04-07T13:48:22.848-04:00ATF Seeking To Create 'Massive Online Database'From <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/atf-seeks-massive-database-personal-info-assets-relatives-associates" target="_blank">cnsnews.com</a>: <em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em><br />
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<br />Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-14120481248431479212013-04-06T12:07:00.000-04:002013-04-06T12:07:04.493-04:00The Big Business Of 'The War On Poverty'From <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/BOOMTOWN-2-Taxpayers-Have-Spent-15-Trillion-On-The-War-on-Poverty" target="_blank">Breitbart</a>: <span style="color: blue;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>“Boomtown 2” also discussed how companies that administer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards profit when the welfare rolls swell. Since 2004, for example, JP Morgan, which donated $808,799 to Barack Obama in 2008, has made at least $560,492,596 running EBT programs for 18 states.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Despite the $15 trillion U.S. taxpayers have spent since the war on poverty’s inception, poverty in America is largely unchanged. This week, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that nearly 50 million Americans live below the federal poverty line.</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">Just like Boeing and many others have profited off the Military Industrial Complex,so have JP Morgan and others profited hugely off the anti-poverty programs our government cultivates.It would be far cheaper if the federal government cut every single American a check for at least $100 thousand,than to spend it on the anti-poverty programs it has created,but then JP Morgan and others wouldn't be making a huge windfall.Follow the money and you will find the truth every time.</span><br />
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-37396714915211678312013-04-05T11:39:00.000-04:002013-04-05T11:39:08.378-04:0090 Million In Dead WeightFrom <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/people-not-labor-force-soar-663000-90-million-labor-force-participation-rate-1979-le" target="_blank">Zero Hedge</a>: <span style="color: blue;"><em></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer even looking for work. This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% - the lowest since 1979! But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is "improving."</em></span></blockquote>
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Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-81689501993258271242012-06-26T14:35:00.001-04:002012-06-26T14:35:59.318-04:00'Croynism,The American Way'<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304044/croynism-american-way-veronique-de-rugy#more">Vernonique de Rugy</a>: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>In their new book </em></span><a href=""><span style="color: blue;"><em>Why Nations Fail</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><em>, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson explain a country’s institutions’ impact on its wealth and economic growth. They, for instance, argue “that the ultimate cause for economic success or failure is rooted within each countries’ institutions, and that understanding how those institutions evolve is crucial for development.”</em></span></div>
<span style="color: blue;"><em>In a recent interview, which </em></span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304016/european-roundup-why-they-arent-getting-better-edition-veronique-de-rugy"><span style="color: blue;"><em>I already mentioned</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><em> this morning, Acemoglu </em></span><a href="http://www.sintetia.com/daron-acemoglu-mit-nowadays-in-most-countries-the-most-extractive-elite-is-the-politicians-themselves/"><span style="color: blue;"><em>warned us</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><em> about how in most countries, including the United States, the biggest rent seekers and moochers today are politicians themselves.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>But nowadays in most countries, the most extractive elite is the politicians themselves. Think of Greece. You cannot understand the last three decades without understanding corrupt political system. But the same is true even for the United States. The US political system has become dominated by the political elite and the lobbying industry funneling money to them. We are seeing the costs of this at this moment.</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: blue;"><em>Whether America’s institutions have now become more exclusive than inclusive is obviously an empirical question. But there is plenty of extraction going on right now. In </em></span><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/carney-how-hatch-forced-microsoft-to-play-k-streets-game/article/2500453"><span style="color: blue;"><em>this piece</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><em>, for instance, the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney reports on how companies like Microsoft were given very strong signals that hard work isn’t enough to do business in this country and that the right to produce and sell goods and services also requires, political contributions and lobbying capabilities.</em></span></blockquote>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Crony capitalism,where the government picks their favorites,is destroying America.There is no free markets when the government is involved,just coercion.</span>Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-83623639539860787962012-06-20T14:49:00.002-04:002012-06-20T14:49:59.788-04:00'The Illusion Of Choice'The republican Mother has a great post,<a href="http://therepublicanmother.blogspot.com/2012/06/media-choice-illustrated.html">Media Choice Illustrated</a>,at her site.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-77196326065073654832012-06-19T12:11:00.000-04:002012-06-19T12:11:56.054-04:00Could We Be Heading Towards World War III In Syria?From <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-news-agency-reports-joint-syria-iran-russia-and-china-wargames/">The Times Of Israel</a>: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed </em></span><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9103082690" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><em>.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This isn't a wargames exercise.This is a line of demarcation against the 'regieme change' foreign policy that this country has now adopted.This is a stand against this new British style colonialism </span><span style="color: black;">were we seek to make the world America.They are not having it any longer.</span><br />Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-24966009803297735342012-06-14T12:27:00.000-04:002012-06-14T12:27:01.867-04:00'So Who Needs Romney?'Ever since Rand Paul endorsed Romney I have been really depressed.Ron Paul seems to have left his supporters hanging,refusing to stand up on their behalf against the establishment,while they are out in the trenches literally risking life and limb.I'm really disappointed in Ron Paul over this,but that's water over the dam.<br />
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One thing Romney and the establishment needs to understand,just because Rand endorsed you doesn't mean that WE -those of us who have supported Ron Paul- will follow in his foot steps.<a href="http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/so-who-needs-romney/">Doug Weed</a> makes this point clear: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Establishment Republicans and the main stream media are having a difficult time understanding why Ron Paul supporters aren’t just falling into line behind Mitt Romney. Don’t we want the GOP to win? And don’t we want our own candidate to win the nomination someday? And if so, don’t we realize that we have to be loyal to the nominee this time?</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em>Of course, these are the same establishment Republicans who are hiring off duty policemen to arrest and detain our duly elected county chairmen, or locking the registered rolls of delegates in the trunks of their cars so that the convention cannot have a roll call vote and they can claim “Ayes have it,” when the “Ayes” don’t have anything.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em>And this is the mainstream media that gave Ron Paul 89 seconds of an hour long televised debate. And who in another debate, gave their anchor almost as much time as Dr. Paul, the presidential candidate. And who ignore videotaped state conventions where delegates have their bones broken for more compelling news stories elsewhere.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em>We see the train headed toward a canyon and the bridge is out. There is going to be a great crash. And meanwhile, we are being urged to change the engineer. “Obama is driving this train 100 mph!” we are told by hand wringing, hysterical, establishment Republicans. “We need to get Romney in there. He will slow it down to 95.”</em></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black;">One point I would like to add to this,while the establishment love to demand that we fall in line and support the nominee,this is something they rarely do.When Christine O'Donnell won the Delaware primary in 2010 the 'All-Stars' on Fox attacked her viciously.When Lisa Murkowski lost to Joe Miller in the Alaska GOP primary,she didn't accept the result,she ran as a independent in the general election.Not to mention the attacks upon Sarah Palin and others that came from the GOP.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We don't owe them anything and its going to be a pretty cold place in you know where before I vote for Romney!</span></span>Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-2944840703792574432012-06-12T19:10:00.001-04:002012-06-12T19:10:32.222-04:00'Mr. Gorbachev,Tear Down This Wall!'25 years ago this:<br />
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Also,42 years ago my birthday.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-4204540189795964922012-06-09T23:57:00.000-04:002012-06-09T23:57:37.119-04:00The Obama Campaign: All Knowing,All SeeingWhat does the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77213.html">Obama campaign</a> and Santa Clause have in common,beside a penchant for giving out goodies?They both know when your sleeping.They know when your awake.They know who your friends are.They even know who your mother voted for.Well scratch the last 2,even Santa respects your right to privacy,unlike the Obama campaign.<br />
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Both,Barack Obama,and Mitt Romney are cut out of the same cloth,totalitarian,tyrannical,statism,socialism.For them,government does not exist to protect liberty,but for you to obey and to serve in terror.Thomas Gannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257190204837887926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321404641348048508.post-75683877144792836782012-06-05T12:38:00.000-04:002012-06-05T12:38:19.104-04:00'Lee Takes Command and Johnston Loses Command'<br />
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